The Finest Peaks Prominence And Other Mountain Measures

Author : Adam Helman
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781412059954

Get Book

The Finest Peaks - Prominence and Other Mountain Measures by Adam Helman Pdf

This book challenges the precedent that a mountain's worth scales with height. It is a rational synthesis of new concepts that compel one to reassess the popular "heightist mindset". The concept of prominence, loosely defined as a mountain's vertical relief, is a stiff competitor to summit height for assessing a mountain's stature and relative worth for innumerable purposes. The community of prominence theoreticians, list builders, and climbers has reached critical mass - suggesting publication of a book dedicated exclusively to prominence. Revolutions are not overnight. The heightist mindset has minimally a 100 year head start. Eventually the climbing community will embrace prominence. For the mountaineer a prominence-based peak list provides fresh goals guaranteed to satisfy. A prominence-based peak list, regardless of geographic region, incorporates the most awe inspiring and diverse mountains. Chapter I introduces prominence, being defined and contrasted with altitude as peak list generator. Chapters II and III concern peak list production. Chapter IV reviews the history of prominence, including a compendium of prominence list builders and their lists. Chapter V is about prominence oriented peakbaggers and their accomplishments. Chapter VI entails prominence-derived mountain measures - submarine prominence, inverse prominence, proportional prominence, and dominance. Chapter VII concerns the advanced, prominence-derived concepts of parentage, divide trees, lineage cells, and more. Chapter VIII concerns alternative, objective mountain measures: isolation measure; peakedness and prominence density; and height / steepness combination measures - drop measure, cliff measure, spire measure, and ruggedness measure. Spire measure quantifies a mountain's subjective impressiveness due to great angularity. Chapter IX is a search for the largest prominence unclimbed mountain - grand goal of a future, summit-discovering expedition. Appendices A to G cover various subtopics, the glossary defines over 300 terms. 48 pages of illustrations are included, with full-color versions on-line at http://www.cohp.org/prominence/publication_2005_illustrations/main.html A beautiful, hardcover edition with color illustrations is available, and is highly recommended by book reviewers. ? E-mail the author for pricing and purchase information.

Author : Adam J. Helman, Ph.D.
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781490727837

Get Book

A Tale of Twelve Summers by Adam J. Helman, Ph.D. Pdf

There is no end to how people seek the heights. Within such a continuum of mountain enthusiasts, the peakbagger is peculiarly focused on the summit—not just in classic alpine style but also in deserts, jungles, and everywhere a big mountain awaits, ticking off his lists. County high-pointing represents this obsession, providing the practitioner with all manner of rewards, perceived and tangible. His hobby is not for the timid, often entails difficulties beyond the norm, and always consumes inordinately large chunks of time. Part 1 describes the genre in five chapters. Part 2 reviews the author’s multisummer project of reaching the highest ground for each of the 414 counties in America’s west. It’s a memorable accomplishment replete with many unexpected challenges. The required perseverance and will to achieve beyond the norm is his parting message to the reader. Part 3 reviews Alaska and Hawaii county high-pointing, followed by four appendices and a 330-entry glossary of terms. With 400 pages and 236 illustrations, A Tale of Twelve Summers is both comprehensive and visually attractive.

Author : Christos Kakalis,Emily Goetsch
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137586353

Get Book

Mountains, Mobilities and Movement by Christos Kakalis,Emily Goetsch Pdf

This book explores the moving qualities of mountains by utilising theories, ideas and processes which contribute to a larger understanding of these geological forms. In highlighting the fluid attributes of mountains the authors offer an alternative to the traditional approach of the sciences and the humanities, which address mountains as static geological or geographical features. The essays in this collection posit that movement impacts the relationship between society and mountains – travelling landscape objects, constructing design and artistic translations, climbing and experiencing changing atmospheres and the different ways of seeing from mountain peaks – and that physical, intellectual and spiritual motion is integral to their understanding. This innovative collection will be of great interest to scholars of geography, art, architecture, history, theology and philosophy.

Author : Michael R. Berthold,Ad Feelders,Georg Krempl
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 601 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030445843

Get Book

Advances in Intelligent Data Analysis XVIII by Michael R. Berthold,Ad Feelders,Georg Krempl Pdf

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Data Analysis, IDA 2020, held in Konstanz, Germany, in April 2020. The 45 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 114 submissions. Advancing Intelligent Data Analysis requires novel, potentially game-changing ideas. IDA’s mission is to promote ideas over performance: a solid motivation can be as convincing as exhaustive empirical evaluation.

Author : Marco Di Rienzo,Ramakrishna Mukkamala
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783036509747

Get Book

Wearable and Nearable Biosensors and Systems for Healthcare by Marco Di Rienzo,Ramakrishna Mukkamala Pdf

Biosensors and systems in the form of wearables and “nearables” (i.e., everyday sensorized objects with transmitting capabilities such as smartphones) are rapidly evolving for use in healthcare. Unlike conventional approaches, these technologies can enable seamless or on-demand physiological monitoring, anytime and anywhere. Such monitoring can help transform healthcare from the current reactive, one-size-fits-all, hospital-centered approach into a future proactive, personalized, decentralized structure. Wearable and nearable biosensors and systems have been made possible through integrated innovations in sensor design, electronics, data transmission, power management, and signal processing. Although much progress has been made in this field, many open challenges for the scientific community remain, especially for those applications requiring high accuracy. This book contains the 12 papers that constituted a recent Special Issue of Sensors sharing the same title. The aim of the initiative was to provide a collection of state-of-the-art investigations on wearables and nearables, in order to stimulate technological advances and the use of the technology to benefit healthcare. The topics covered by the book offer both depth and breadth pertaining to wearable and nearable technology. They include new biosensors and data transmission techniques, studies on accelerometers, signal processing, and cardiovascular monitoring, clinical applications, and validation of commercial devices.

Author : Andy Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015049947750

Get Book

County High Points by Andy Martin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Appalachian Mountains
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123413804

Get Book

Appalachia by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11607695

Get Book

Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019937627

Get Book

Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Jill Neate
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : UOM:39015018969538

Get Book

High Asia by Jill Neate Pdf

Author : Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Dolomite Alps (Italy)
ISBN : UOM:39015021305449

Get Book

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys, a Midsummer Ramble in the Dolomites by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards Pdf

Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780241400692

Get Book

The Second Mountain by David Brooks Pdf

NO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMAL Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want. We want the things that are truly worth wanting. This is the second mountain. What does it mean to look beyond yourself and find a moral cause? To forget about independence and discover dependence - to be utterly enmeshed in a web of warm relationships? What does it mean to value intimacy, devotion, responsibility and commitment above individual freedom? In The Second Mountain David Brooks explores the meaning and possibilities that scaling a second mountain offer us and the four commitments that most commonly move us there: family, vocation, philosophy and community. Inspiring, personal and full of joy, this book will help you discover why you were really put on this earth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Commerce
ISBN : UOM:39015084621864

Get Book

Bradstreet's Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Science
ISBN : CORNELL:31924016244869

Get Book

Scientific American by Anonim Pdf

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

At The Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft Pdf

Embark on a chilling expedition to the icy heart of Antarctica with "At The Mountains Of Madness" by H.P. Lovecraft. In this classic tale of cosmic horror, Lovecraft transports readers to the desolate and unforgiving landscape of the Antarctic continent, where an ill-fated scientific expedition uncovers ancient and otherworldly secrets. Are you ready to journey into the unknown and confront the eldritch horrors lurking in the frozen depths? In "At The Mountains Of Madness," Lovecraft weaves a tale of terror and suspense as the expedition team ventures deeper into the icy wilderness, encountering inexplicable phenomena and encountering creatures beyond human comprehension. As the mysteries of Antarctica unravel, the characters grapple with their own sanity and the implications of their discoveries. But here's the real question: Will you dare to follow in the footsteps of the doomed expedition and uncover the truth hidden beneath the Antarctic ice? Are you prepared to confront the cosmic horrors that lie dormant in the depths of the Earth? Experience the spine-tingling thrills of Lovecraftian horror. Lose yourself in the eerie atmosphere and mind-bending terror of "At The Mountains Of Madness." Don't miss your chance to delve into one of H.P. Lovecraft's most iconic works. Purchase your copy of "At The Mountains Of Madness" today and prepare to be haunted by the chilling visions of the Antarctic wasteland.